Hello and welcome to Navigate the Day, a daily podcast following a journaling journey of Stoic. Principles over the course of 365 days. I'm your host, Keegan.With that being said, let's jump right in. It's January 4th.And today's subject is the the main 3 foundations. For the Stoic philosophy, we're in the month of January, which is clarity.And I'm going to go ahead and jump right into this Marcus Aurelius quote that we have today.
All you need are these certainty of judgment in the present moment. Action for the common good in the present moment, and an attitude of gratitude in the present moment for anything that comes your way. So these three foundations. Are controlling your perceptions. Directing your actions correctly. And and having an A willingness to accept what is beyond our control. So the prompt today. Is my vision clear? Am I acting generously? And then am I accepting what
I can't change? So I kind of broke that down into 3 sections here. So am I seeing clearly?I suppose maybe this morning, only 30 minutes before my scheduled start time for work, I received a text from my supervisor.That stated, given the stresses that we've recently had that we could take the day off.It seems that everyone's paychecks have been delayed on top of everything else.Fortunately, I'm not really in a position that
makes me over worry.As I do have a small emergency fund, my back isn't against a wall as much as some of the others and this is causing some grief.I could have taken the day off.But why?Why take income away from myself? I couldn't see a reason to say, stay home today, so I went into work.I don't even like my job that much, but I still showed up. I don't mean to brag, quite the contrary. I guess does that mean I'm looking at
things clearly? Well, I feel the goals that I have are sometimes unattainable, as if this life has to all that this life has to offer.Is work, eat and sleep, with some moments of joy sprinkled in.So no, I wouldn't currently currently say that I see things clearly.And unfortunately I really don't know how to solve the problems that may be underneath that. But I can work on that. And now that I'm more aware of this, I can take some time to kind of practice looking at the world for what it is.
As of late I haven't really acted as generously as I could. I haven't really been feeling charitable and actually have kind of felt a bit of a disconnect from people. Hours have been cut across the company as far as I can tell. So on top of that, not exactly in a good place as far as income is concerned. However, I know that there was work to be done and I still showed up today giving it my all.I guess when it comes to time and knowledge, I do tend to be a
little more generous, generous. I try to share in my learned philosophies and techniques for coping with the human condition, and I do have a handful of people that come to me for advice.It isn't as often as it used to be. Still, in this way, I'm most generous, then, by lending an empathetic ear to the few people around me. As far as accepting things that I can't change, I I'm not. I'm. I'm very unaccepting of these things, especially in my daily life.And I'm starting to think
this is a big problem. It's like I'm trying to fight the things that I feel are unfair. And I almost feel like I'm up against the world, like I'm the only one seeing things this way, which I guess is true on some level. I'm not very comfortable with where I'm at and how I see myself, and the more I sit with this, the more I get anxious about the idea that I don't have control.Realizing this makes the idea of this being a year long practice feel nearly impossible.
Although that makes me feel like I owe it to myself to actually try and really give it my best shot.And. With that being said, I just need to remember that my best shot or my best might not be enough to reach the goals that I have at this moment. And that's OK.Because this gives me an opportunity to to grow into someone that is able to reach them. So with that being said, I I have some things to work on which is why
I'm doing this.Exercise in the 1st place, that's why I'm doing this project is because I obviously have some stuff to work on.So with that being said, I'm going to go ahead and try to keep these these phrases in mind as I go about my day tomorrow as well. I'm just determining my perceptions. Controlling them.Like I decide what I perceive.And then as well taking and. Going about my day with actions that are more for the common good and help more people than
just myself.And unfortunately, trying to accept what's outside of my control, like I at least need to try. So if.I think that's all I've got for today. So thank you for joining me. Thank you Keegan, cause this is for you bud. This is for me to to be able to have an audio journal for myself later. And to be able to kind of see where my head was at, um, a year from now? For anybody else that joined us today, thank you. This is Ben. Navigate the Day with Keegan.